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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-util/staruml-bin
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:14:43
Message-Id: 20190316131412.c61e84f49fe0433b9a5c255a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-util/staruml-bin by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 10:35:18 +0100 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 2019-03-16 at 09:31 +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 10:23:00 +0100
4 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > # Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> (15 Mar 2019)
7 > > > # Last reverse dependency of dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5* (#656378). Current
8 > > > # version is outdated, maintainer is MIA and the new versions are
9 > > > # in distro-unfriendly AppImage format (#661740).
10 > > > # Removal in 30 days. Bug #677486.
11 > > > dev-util/staruml-bin
12 > > > =dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5*
13 > >
14 > > I don't care about staruml-bin but libgcrypt is one of those legacy
15 > > libraries that would be helpful to keep around for older proprietary
16 > > software that is not in the tree. In particular, it is used by
17 > > Half-Life 2 and Portal, not exactly obscure games. It is included in
18 > > the Steam runtime but we highly recommend against using that because it
19 > > causes many issues.
20 >
21 > I don't understand why would you want to run some proprietary native
22 > executables requiring obsolete libraries on your system when HL2 works
23 > perfectly via wine, and gets a nice performance boost via Gallium Nine.
24
25 Because native code works faster than API emulation via wine.
26
27 Best regards,
28 Andrew Savchenko

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